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Introducing Inroads 23
Jul 01, 2008; Chodos, Bob ... Inroads has become a quarterly. Well, sort of. Feeling that six months between issues is too long, in March we put together a 34-page package that we made available only through email and our website. Its main feature was an exchange on Pakistan between Doug McArthur, whose article on ...
Enfranchising immigrants
Jul 01, 2008; Munro, Daniel ... Should noncitizen residents have the right to vote? In an interview with the Toronto Star's editorial board, Toronto Mayor David Miller indicated his support for a policy that would extend municipal voting rights to landed immigrants in Toronto. According to Miller, people should have "a ...
Trust on a street corner, approaching midnight
Jul 01, 2008; Poschmann, Finn ... A few blocks north and slightly to the east of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., there is a post office. Around a quarter to midnight on April 15 this year, I happened to be walking by (don't ask why). One thing, then another, grabbed my attention. The first was that traffic was heavy as I neared ...
Polygamy, impunity and human rights
Jul 01, 2008; Bramham, Daphne ... Polygamy has been illegal in Canada since 1890. It was criminalized soon after Charles O. Card, a fugitive escaping prosecution in Utah for having more than one wife, settled in Alberta. Card and several senior members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints went to Ottawa to ...
The return of God - and what to do about it
Jul 01, 2008; Whitaker, Reg ... Who would have thought that the new millennium would begin with jihads, holy wars, fatwas, inquisitions and slaughter of the innocents in the name of God? Almost four centuries since the Catholic Church condemned Galileo for heresy; a century and a half after Darwin's Origin of Species, ...
The Prairie NDP's uncertain future
Jul 01, 2008; Richards, John ... A realistic Aboriginal agenda is nowhere to be found In 2007, Manitoba voters reelected their NDP government, while Saskatchewan voters defeated theirs. Two elections, opposite results. What do they mean? In the following pages, Chris Adams examines polling data that cast light on the ...
Stephen Harper, Canadian
Jul 01, 2008; Carter, Neal ... A personality at a distance profile Stephen Harper presents a serious puzzle to students of Canadian politics. Often portrayed as a radically conservative ideologue, his policies on both the domestic and international fronts have been less dogmatic than most observers expected. In his ...
Language: how well are we doing?
Jul 01, 2008; Richards, John ... An introduction A country's census tells us something about its concerns. The U.S. census affords much data on black/white and Hispanic/white trends in per capita income, education levels, rates of single parenthood and incarceration. Canada's census affords detailed data on mother ...
Dr. Dion, or How I learned to stop worrying and love Minority Government
Jul 01, 2008; Milner, Henry ... When the Liberals announced that they would not vote down the 2008 budget, Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson wrote, "The recent, silly, occasionally frenzied speculation about an election will end, for which Canadians can only be grateful." Indeed we were grateful, but exactly who was ...
Politically correct and lovin' it
Jul 01, 2008; Marcus, Willa ... One of my first jobs in journalism, back in the 1970s, was as researcher on CBC radio's Cross Country Checkup, the national phone-in show. Generally it was serious political stuff, but around April Fool's Day we decided to go light. In the era before the top ten list, we hit on a novel idea: ...
The de Tocqueville of Saskatchewan
Jul 01, 2008; Richards, John ... An appreciation of Seymour Martin Lipset In his youth, the author of Agrarian Socialism was a Trotskyist; in his mature years, he figured prominently among neoconservative intellectuals, a group whose ideas and debates played an important role in shaping American public policy over the ...
Did the Israel lobby kill Rachel Corrie?
Jul 01, 2008; Milner, Arthur ... Rachel Corrie, an idealistic 23-year-old American from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by a bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier in Gaza on March 16, 2003. She was protesting collective punishment and the destruction of Palestinian homes. British actor Alan Rickman and Guardian ...
Diverging paths?
Jul 01, 2008; Adams, Christopher ... Why Manitoba still likes the NDP, and Saskatchewan doesn't In 2007, New Democratic Party governments in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan faced their electorates, and the two elections produced different outcomes. The results in the party's historical heartland have much to say about where ...
Belgium: less than the sum of its parts?
Jul 01, 2008; Poirier, Johanne ... A part from chocolate and beer, one of the major products exported from Belgium over the last two decades has been its constitutional model. It has not been copied elsewhere, at least not in its entirety ("Thank God," some would say), but it has been studied in nearly every international circle ...
Thinking North America
Jul 01, 2008; Resnick, Philip ... It was the Spanish part of the invention of America that liberated Western man from the fetters of a prison-like conception of his physical world, and it was the English part that liberated him from subordination to a Europecentred conception of his historical world. In these two great ...
Scenes of hope and horror
Jul 01, 2008; Chodos, Bob; Richards, John ... In the following pages we present three extraordinary observations by Canadians abroad. The primary focus is Africa, although Don Cayo's travels took him to Cambodia and Poland as well as Rwanda. Robert Cohen tells the most hopeful of the three stories. His expertise in housing has taken ...
Remembering genocide
Jul 01, 2008; Cayo, Don ... No need for words ... Let the silence speak for you. - A visitor to Washington's Holocaust Museum My travels over the last year have taken me to some of the vilest places on earth. I don't mean landscapes that are ugly or unpleasant or unsafe. No, these places are home to such ...
The struggle for the meaning of war
Jul 01, 2008; Chodos, Bob ... The struggle for the meaning of war Suzanne Evans, Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: World War I and the Politics of Grief. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.209 pages. For several years, the terms of debate on the Iraq war in the United States have been ...
A work in progress
Jul 01, 2008; Cohen, Robert ... The new South Africa's first fifteen years It is almost 15 years since the African National Congress took power in South Africa - a good time to assess what has been accomplished, what has not been accomplished and what just might be accomplished. Here I follow these paths through ...
Northern Uganda
Jul 01, 2008; Chodos, Bob ... The human face of atrocity Dave Klassen lived more than 22 years in Africa, including seven years as Mennonite Central Committee country representative in Uganda. Rick Gamble teaches journalism at Wilfrid Laurier University's campus in Brantford, Ontario, and is a former reporter with ...